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Mini-NDN version 0.4.0 (changes since version 0.3.0)

Release date: January 10, 2018

New features:

- Use SIGQUIT to quit Mini-NDN, SIGINT to kill programs

- Use Infoedit to edit NFD and NLSR configuration files

- Use nlsr.conf installed in the system

- Provide a Vagrantfile to setup Mini-NDN and NDN

- Provide option to disable NLSR

- Provide an option to run NLSR in dry-run mode

- Add option to specify whether to use TCP or UDP face in nlsr.conf

- Add option to specify arbitrary arguments to use in experiments

- Include a single option to install Mini-NDN and all the dependencies

Bug fixes:

- Fix "key does not exist error" after NLSR starts

- Update install.sh to call ldconfig after installing ChronoSync

- Add hyperbolic coordinates to default topology

Misc changes:

- Add an experiment to test nlsrc

- Create faces in NFD for each neighbor in NLSR

- Update to latest ndn-cxx

- Use /tmp/minindn folder as default work dir instead of /tmp

Mini-NDN version 0.3.0 (changes since version 0.2.0)

Release date: March 3, 2017

New featues:

- Mini-NDN cluster edition

- New experiments for making NLSR testing easier

Bug fixes:

- Set site name correctly

- Install missing certificates in NLSR security config

- Fix quitting of NLSR due to key not found error

Misc changes:

- Removed nlsr.conf file, generate it within the code

- Use argparse instead of deprecated optparse

- Update security config section for NLSR

- Change mininet prompt to mini-ndn

- Set network name at one place

- Update install.sh script to install openssl

- Update install.sh script to install cryptopp from package instead of compiling from source

- Update install.sh to clean build folder every time to get rid of removed files such as old experiments

- Fix old code - use net.hosts instead of storing hosts in a variable

- Use nfdc instead of deprecated nfd-status

Mini-NDN version 0.2.0 (changes since version 0.1.1)

Release date: August 18, 2016

New featues:

- Automatic security configuration for NLSR

- Use /usr/local/etc/ndn/nfd.conf as default config file for NFD

- Class to monitor /proc/$PID/stat file for PID

- Mini-NDN exits gracefully on SIGINT and non-convergence

- Faster Mini-NDN install script - does not do apt-get update everytime

- NLSR is launched with explicit config file for easier process identification

- Add and update more documentation

Bug fixes:

- NFD is killed correctly on exit

- Best route strategy is set correctly

Mini-NDN version 0.1.1 (changes since version 0.1.0)

Release date: November 4, 2015

New features:

- Use nfd.conf.sample from currently installed NFD
- Add working directory option to allow execution environment outside of /tmp
- Add results directory option to store experiment results after completion
- Add support for switches in GUI and configuration file
- Add failNode and recoverNode methods to Experiment class
- Add most connected node (MCN) failure experiment
- Add option to specify percentage of nodes pinged

Code changes:

- Refactor program options into container class
- Remove unused "FIB Entries" option from NDN host options

Bug fixes:

- Abort start up if experiment name is invalid
- Restart pings after recovery in failure experiment

Mini-NDN version 0.1.0 (initial release)

Release date: July 15, 2015

Mini-NDN is a lightweight networking emulation tool that enables testing, experimentation,
and research on the NDN platform. Based on Mininet, Mini-NDN uses the NDN libraries, NFD,
NLSR, and tools released by the NDN project to emulate an NDN network on a single system.

Included features:

- Run a complete NDN network on a single system
- Automatic configuration of NLSR to provide a routable NDN network
- Supports user created NDN applications
- Create a topology using the included Mini-NDN Edit GUI application
- Allows individual configuration of NFD and NLSR parameters for each node
- Provides an experiment management framework for easy creation of custom networking experiments
- Uses a simple topology file format to define hosts, links, and configuration values
- Configure network link parameters including bandwidth, delay, and loss rate
- Includes a pre-configured topology file to replicate the NDN testbed